Definition of Aran Islands

1. Noun. Three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay.

Group relationships: Emerald Isle, Hibernia, Ireland, Galway Bay
Generic synonyms: Island

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aran Islands

Aramaeans
Aramaic
Aramaic script
Aramaism
Aramaisms
Aramanik
Aramean
Arameans
Aramus
Aramus guarauna
Aramus pictus
Aramæan
Aramæans
Aran
Aran-Duchenne disease
Aran Islands (current term)
Aran jumper
Aranadan
Aranea
Aranea diademata
Araneae
Araneida
Aranese
Araneus
Araneus cavaticus
Arantius' ligament
Arantius' nodule
Arantius' ventricle
Aranyaka
Arapaho

Literary usage of Aran Islands

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"(DH) Aran Islands, or SOUTH ARAN, three islands lying across Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland, in a south-easterly direction, forming a kind of ..."

2. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"If any one is skep- that when Synge passed from the Latin tical, we point to the fact that something 30 Quarter to the Aran Islands he was re- like the ..."

3. A Selected Bibliography of the Anthropology and Ethnology of Europe by William Zebina Ripley (1899)
"Ethnography of the Aran Islands. (Proc. Royal Irish acad., Dublin, series 3, ii, pp. 768-830. ... Aran Islands ..."

4. Insula Sanctorum Et Doctorum: Or, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars by John Healy (1890)
"We propose, therefore, to give a fuller account of the Aran Islands, both in the present and the past, than might, perhaps, be expected from the scope of ..."

5. On an Irish Jaunting-car Through Donegal and Connemara by Samuel Gamble Bayne (1902)
"1 Aran Islands THE Aran Isles lie out in the Atlantic, some twenty-nine miles from shore, being visited by a small steamer twice a week. ..."

6. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1901)
"by the sea-cliff, from the rest, in the manner of some of the stone forts on the Aran Islands and elsewhere ; but whether this was an ancient erection like ..."

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